From ideas to action
Achievements & projects
A record of work
Completed projects
- Integrated self-sustaining village development, including the adoption of Umla village from 1994 to 1999.
- Twelve watershed development projects and demonstrations of ecological farming in 46 villages from 1996 to 2005.
- Fabrication of manual dehairing machines and improved water flour mills.
- Solar vegetable and fruit dryers, passive solar greenhouses, homes, and poultry houses.
- Health programme for control of silicosis, including distribution and sale of 6,000 filtered masks.
- Handicraft and handloom development, including vegetable dyeing and Ladakhi patterns for Pashmina shawls.
- Appropriate technology development and application.
Continuing the work
Programmes under implementation
- Integrated self-sustaining village and watershed development
- Ecological agriculture
- Health programme
- Handicraft and handloom development
- Seminars, conferences, and training
- Appropriate technology
- Solar energy: improved greenhouses, passive solar houses, and solar poultry houses
- Pashmina development
- Fruit and vegetable preservation
- Marketing of ecological products
- Biodiversity conservation
- Climate change initiatives
- Consultancy for greenhouses, passive solar houses, vegetable dyeing, and Pashmina processing
- Poly sheet supply for green and passive solar houses
- Vegetable and fruit processing